Linux-Hardware Digest #729, Volume #12 Sat, 22 Apr 00 18:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Large HD & Boot Partition ("Micah")
Re: Large HD & Boot Partition (note) ("Micah")
Re: Samba printing problems ("Rask0")
Re: Large HD & Boot Partition (note) (Dances With Crows)
Re: Which modem can run under LINUX (Alexis Bilodeau)
Re: Super computer (Carl Benson)
Re: Netscape & Mail Question (Jean-Marc Le Peuvedic)
Browser based backup tools? ("Rask0")
Re: Onboard Audio in Linux (Rod Smith)
Re: New linux "user" (Alexis Bilodeau)
modem setup problems (phreeb)
Re: Large HD & Boot Partition (note) ("Micah")
Re: Digital Multimeters. (Bloody Viking)
Re: help for HP 710 c (C. C. McPherson)
Re: Large HD & Boot Partition (note) (Dances With Crows)
DVD .- (Jorge Dominguez)
ATT: Can someone pls help? ("eliz154")
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From: "Micah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Large HD & Boot Partition
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:25:09 -0700
I've got a 20 Gig IDE drive. When I try and create a Boot Partition using
Red Hat's Disk Druid it only lets me use 8 Gig. Does Linux have a dopey
limitation on the size of a boot partition? I can allocate the rest of the
drive as other mount points but I'd rather mount the whole drive as / (less
the 32 MB swap partition). This is Red Hat 6.2.
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From: "Micah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large HD & Boot Partition (note)
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:26:37 -0700
Sorry it is Red Hat 6.0
Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:a8mM4.319$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've got a 20 Gig IDE drive. When I try and create a Boot Partition using
> Red Hat's Disk Druid it only lets me use 8 Gig. Does Linux have a dopey
> limitation on the size of a boot partition? I can allocate the rest of
the
> drive as other mount points but I'd rather mount the whole drive as /
(less
> the 32 MB swap partition). This is Red Hat 6.2.
>
>
>
>
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From: "Rask0" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Samba printing problems
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:31:55 -0700
The permissions deal was it all along. THANKS!!!!!
Rask0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8dd0pd$g0j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Below is a cut from my smb.conf file. I can send print jobs from a Win95
box
> to the Samba server and see the print jobs in the queue as indicated in
the
> path - but they wont print to the printer. The printer prints from the
test
> part of Printtool, but won't print from emacs or from jobs submitted via
> Samba. ????
>
> I have used samples from the LDP Howto to ge tthis far, but I am missing
> something. I also think I have redundant entries to make printing work -
the
> [printers] section should be all I need if I understand the Howto and the
> O'Reilly Samba book, but the sample in the Howto show a [printers] section
> and the [deskjet] seciton. I can only successfully Samba wise send files
to
> the queue using the [deskjet]
>
> Thanks.
>
> yusuf
>
> [Global]
> #Printing
> printing = BDS
> printcap name = /etc/printcap
> min print space = 2000
> load printers = yes
> log file = /var/log/samba_log.%m
> lock directory = /var/lock/samba
>
> [printers]
> comment = ALL Printers
> path = /usr/spool/samba/deskjet
> browsable = no
> printable = yes
> public = yes
> writable = no
> create mode = 0700
>
> [deskjet]
> path = /var/spool/samba/deskjet
> # printer name = HP672c
> writable = yes
> public = yes
> printable = yes
> print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P %p -r %s
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Large HD & Boot Partition (note)
Date: 22 Apr 2000 14:46:48 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:26:37 -0700, Micah
<<x9mM4.325$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> I've got a 20 Gig IDE drive. When I try and create a Boot Partition using
> Red Hat's Disk Druid it only lets me use 8 Gig. Does Linux have a dopey
> limitation on the size of a boot partition? I can allocate the rest of
>the drive as other mount points but I'd rather mount the whole drive as /
>(less the 32 MB swap partition). This is Red Hat 6.2.
There is a limitation; a BIOS-based limitation, as you'd know if you'd
read the FAQ. The kernel image and loading map must be within the first
1024 cylinders so that the BIOS can find them at boot time. The latest
version of LILO fixes this problem but no distro ships with the newest
LILO yet.
The fix for the problem is to create a /boot partition of 10-20M at the
start of the drive. And you really should read the Partition-HOWTO, where
you will find good arguments about the wisdom of having /usr, /home, /var,
and /usr/local as separate partitions.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: Alexis Bilodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which modem can run under LINUX
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 18:59:50 GMT
fdf wrote:
>
> I want ot buy a new modem and use in LINUX
> which brand and model???
> Pls advise!!!!
> thanks
Almost any brand of modems will work under Linux. The one thing you
must be very careful about is not to buy a Winmodem or a Softmodem (all
modem manufacturers make these type of modems). When you'll shop for
your modem, make sure to buy one with a HARDWARE CONTROLLER.
Configuring it will be a charm.
GVC and US Robotics makes pretty good modems, as long as you buy a
hardware one.
Hope it'll help,
--
Alexis Bilodeau
eMagiK Technologies
819.371.9273
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Carl Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Super computer
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:58:53 -0700
Regarding Mosix & supercomputers on the cheap,
Our Biostat department at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
has a MOSIX cluster with 9 dual-processor Celeron systems. Only
the master system has a disk drive; the other 8 are diskless,
and boot from the master system using bootp.
The guy who built it made some tweaks to the NFS source code so
that the systems can share the single disk without walking over
each others' /tmp and other writable directories.
The systems are connected to each other through 100 MBps
switched ethernet, but isolated from the 'Net. The master
system has a 2nd NIC that connects to the outside world.
Each node (I've heard) cost <$800, and is blazingly fast.
Nevertheless, we have one researcher here who apparently
manages to fully utilize the cluster.
I've been told it's very easy to add additional diskless
nodes, though I haven't had to do this myself yet.
If this sounds interesting to you, contact me, and I can give
you the builder's e-mail address. As far as I'm concerned
he's a cluster genius.
--CarlB (just your average Unix SysAdmin)
Jim Williams wrote:
>
> Simon,
>
> You might want to take a look at MOSIX for your idle-time balancing. Check out
>their web
> site at:
>
> http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/
>
> As far as the diskless part goes.... I suppose it might be possible to do remote
>boot of
> the nodes from a central server. You might not want to do this on the same network
>you
> are doing your inter-node communication on, though. This could possibly result in
>big
> processing slowdowns.
>
> I've set up a six-node MOSIX cluster using some old 486 systems. (With the surplus
> equipment I got, the total price was under US$100. I ain't knocking it....) The
>load
> balancing works reasonably well.
>
> Simon Lemieux wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > is it possible to have two computers running on the same HD and different
>RAM,
> > connected by Ethernet, but commands that are executed are given to the idle CPU?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Simon Lemieux
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From: Jean-Marc Le Peuvedic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape & Mail Question
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:48:07 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Toolman wrote:
> Hi Folks!
>
> We have (2) ISP's, each with (2) mail box's. How do I set up Netscape
> to look in these mail box's for new mail. When I go to prefrences, it
> only lets me set up (1) mail account under a pop server. I do this in
> IE with no problem.
>
> Also,.....is it me or does the left mouse button in NS mostly not
> function.
>
> Any Ideas!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dennis, WI
Use a more sophisticated setup:
fetchmail can do what you want (scan multiple pop servers and multiple
accounts on each) and reinjects the mail in your local sendmail, changing
addressees from external email addresses to valid aliases or account
names on your linux system.
Netscape can then be configured to get email from your system mailbox
(/var/spool/<your_logon>) using the movemail application.
In a similar way, you can tell Netscape to send outgoing mail to your
local sendmail program. You need to configure sendmail to route outgoing
mail to the smart host (your ISP) when it has an opportunity.
Advantages :
You can send email to other accounts on your computer, or to yourself,
without going to your ISP.
You can read and write e-mail while offline. Sendmail and fetchmail must
be set up to exchange mail at the beginning of every connection. They're
specialized, very fast and handle protocol variants and errors better
than general purpose browsers like NS.
You can have many mailboxes on the internet : they all get routed to your
system mailbox.
You can use all the .forward and vacation tricks (see man procmail)
Internet mail is integrated with Unix mail instead of being another
incompatible software system.
Drawbacks :
Fetchmail is straightforward to setup, but sendmail is a complex thing
that's not usually setup correctly in standard Linux distribs. I can send
you my .mc file on request.
I intend to showcase my internet setup on my website, but that's not done
yet. And since I have set up diald, leafnode seems to be unable to
download new news. I'll just wait until all news are expired to be sure
it's dead.
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From: "Rask0" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Browser based backup tools?
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 12:00:09 -0700
Anybody aware of any browser based backup tools similar to Linuxconf or
SWAT? I need to be able to work from a workstation and not the server itself
for backups.
Or a resource to creating my own browser based tool as mentioned above to do
tape backup type work.
BTW, I did get the my HP 20GB working, so now I need to make it more
non-tech friendly for a user.
Has anyone used "taper" from telnet?
Thanks!
yusuf
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Onboard Audio in Linux
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:02:25 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tellplace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have the same problem with my Asus K7V motherboard running Linux
> Mandrake 7.0. I'll be watching this thread. Hope somebody findes
> the anwser.
As I posted earlier, the 0.5.6 and later ALSA drivers
(http://www.alsa-project.org) work with the K7M. I've received feedback
from others using other similar motherboards to the effect that these
drivers work for them, too. I don't know about the K7V specifically, but
I'd guess the chances are very good it'll work with these drivers.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: Alexis Bilodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New linux "user"
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:04:59 GMT
Klitsuk wrote:
>
> I want to get linux
> but i don't know which version to get redhat or mendrake
> can someone please tell me which one i have to choose and why
> thanks
> Fred Klitsuk
I think that Red Hat and Mandrake are great distributions... I
installed Mandrake 7.0 and it was very easy to set up for my hardware...
Plus, there's a lot of useful tools with the distribution.
--
Alexis Bilodeau
eMagiK Technologies
819.371.9273
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: phreeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem setup problems
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:30:10 GMT
I just installed Corel Linux and it didn't setup my modem for me
automattically. Its a US Robotics 56k fax plug-in-play internal (*not* a
winmodem). I'm new to linux and have no idea how to setup my hardware.
Also, if possible, I could use some instructions on how to setup a printer
(HP Deskjet 722C) and sound card (Sound Blaster 16 AWE-32). Any help
would be much appreciated, thanks.
phreeb
--
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From: "Micah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large HD & Boot Partition (note)
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 12:32:06 -0700
Yeah, well if the FAQs and HOWTOs were readable on the installation CD BEFOR
installing the OS I'd be able to read them; but they are not, they are
archived. Aren't they? And there is NO Partition-HOWTO with RH 6.0 any
how.
Everybody says "Read the FAQ" or "Read the HOWTO" rather than offering any
useful information. Cop out. Many of these documents refer you to read
other HOWTO documents which then eventually refer you back to the document
you started with without fully answering what you were looking up. Check
out the documents on routing and firewalling. Geesh.
A BIOS based limitation? Well this is the same BIOS I used for NT and I
could use the whole disk as a single contiguous BOOTABLE partition. So it's
really a Linux deficiency. Much like a FAT deficiency I imagine.
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:26:37 -0700, Micah
> <<x9mM4.325$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> > I've got a 20 Gig IDE drive. When I try and create a Boot Partition
using
> > Red Hat's Disk Druid it only lets me use 8 Gig. Does Linux have a dopey
> > limitation on the size of a boot partition? I can allocate the rest of
> >the drive as other mount points but I'd rather mount the whole drive as /
> >(less the 32 MB swap partition). This is Red Hat 6.2.
>
> There is a limitation; a BIOS-based limitation, as you'd know if you'd
> read the FAQ. The kernel image and loading map must be within the first
> 1024 cylinders so that the BIOS can find them at boot time. The latest
> version of LILO fixes this problem but no distro ships with the newest
> LILO yet.
>
> The fix for the problem is to create a /boot partition of 10-20M at the
> start of the drive. And you really should read the Partition-HOWTO, where
> you will find good arguments about the wisdom of having /usr, /home, /var,
> and /usr/local as separate partitions.
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
> There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
> But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama
critics
> (Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: Bloody Viking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Digital Multimeters.
Crossposted-To: sci.electronics.misc,alt.energy.homepower,comp.lang.c
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:59:13 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware -hs- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: What is your question about the C-language ?
My question is how I would go about getting the reading from the device in
Linux, of course, having to code in C.
--
CAUTION: Email Spam Killer in use. Leave this line in your reply! 152680
First Law of Economics: You can't sell product to people without money.
4968238 bytes of spam mail deleted. http://www.wwa.com/~nospam/
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From: C. C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: help for HP 710 c
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 17:13:40 -0400
> how can i do my hp 710 c work with mandrake 7.0Ian a �crit
:
>
>
>
You need the pnm2ppa or the pbm2ppa utility. You can get the
pbm2ppa utility at http://www.httptech.com/ppa/software.html
but remember it is only black & white. The pnm2ppa utility
can be found at
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/Applications_Publishing.htm
l this utility is suppose to do color (I have not tried it
yet).
-Clyde
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Large HD & Boot Partition (note)
Date: 22 Apr 2000 17:16:07 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 12:32:06 -0700, Micah
<<W6nM4.432$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Yeah, well if the FAQs and HOWTOs were readable on the installation CD BEFOR
>installing the OS I'd be able to read them; but they are not, they are
>archived. Aren't they? And there is NO Partition-HOWTO with RH 6.0 any
>Everybody says "Read the FAQ" or "Read the HOWTO" rather than offering any
>useful information. Cop out. Many of these documents refer you to read
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/
>other HOWTO documents which then eventually refer you back to the document
>you started with without fully answering what you were looking up. Check
>out the documents on routing and firewalling. Geesh.
If you have a problem with a particular HOWTO, send mail to the HOWTO's
maintainer offering suggestions/advice/a completely rewritten version.
>A BIOS based limitation? Well this is the same BIOS I used for NT and I
>could use the whole disk as a single contiguous BOOTABLE partition. So it's
>really a Linux deficiency. Much like a FAT deficiency I imagine.
When you create an ext2 filesystem, there is no normally practical way to
tell it, "Use sectors X..Y to store this file." The designers left that
feature out because it's not needed for normal applications. The only
two files that need to be in a specific area of the disk are LILO's
loading map and the kernel image, and the only reason *those* files need
to be in a certain area of the disk is because LILO must use the BIOS
functions for disk access at boot time. The BIOS functions are relatively
brain-dead, and for the longest time, they could only access up to
cylinder 1024 of a hard disk. If the disk is in LBA mode, this means an
8.4G limit.
DOS-based products put certain files at certain places on the disk and
won't let you move them. The swapfile is like that under WinXX. Some
OEMs ship WinXX systems with strange immovable files at the very end of
the disk.
You could easily make your whole disk one large partition. The problem
is that the kernel image might get put *anywhere*, and with Murphy's Law,
it would get put somewhere where LILO can't find it. The Redhat installer
is trying to protect you from doing Something Stupid.
As I've said before, the latest version of LILO circumvents this. There
are other bootloaders like grub and nuni as well, but LILO is the default
and if you install RH 6.0, LILO will be installed unless you go through
contortions. You can either "sacrifice" 1 or 2 cylinders for a /boot
partition at the beginning of the drive (come on, this is 8 or 16 megs,
.08% of your disk space in the worst case!) or you can wait a month or so
for the latest LILO to get integrated into distros.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: Jorge Dominguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DVD .-
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 21:30:05 GMT
Hi all :
I've the opportunity to buy a dvd pionner 10x but i don't know if RH 6.2
support this device .-
Can you help me ?
TIA .-
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http://www.help.com/
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From: "eliz154" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.dev.laptop,linux.dev.newbie,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: ATT: Can someone pls help?
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:01:19 +0100
Hi
I have a 6Gb hard disk. I want to delete windows, and give linux the full
6Gb. Can anyone pls tell me how to do this with Disk Druid?
I've manged to install but when linux boots up and does all it checks it say
"hda1 not cleanly mounted right check forced" How do I mount the partitions
right?
When I delete all windose partitions, and try to install linux with
"workstation installation" it goes back to "custom" setup and then asks me
to make partitions.
When I go into linux conf then state of the system, it tells me that " the
state of the system is not in sync with the current/update configuration"
and "you can look at the things that will have to be done to make the system
current" The thing this might have something to do with the partitions. Can
anyone pls help me with my problems??
This is what I've used for my partitions. Can anyone pls suggest something
better??
hda 1 linux native 900 mb
hda 5 linux swap 128 mb
I'm installing Definite linux version 7 (which is the same as Redhat linux)
Thanks
Eliz
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